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Orlando includes short event entries, freestanding and embedded in author profiles, about moments and processes relevant to literary history and organized into four categories: Women writers, Writing Climate, Political Climate, and Social Climate. Explore the timelines by searching for date(s) and/or words or phrases associated with them.

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1560: Gerhard Mercator published his famous map...

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1560

Gerhard Mercator published his famous map of the world (the Mercator Projection, which at the price of some inaccuracy of scale, depicts the spherical globe as a flat surface).
Cameron, Jennifer. A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645). St Pauls Publications, 2000.
237

1560: The complete Geneva Bible appeared, translated...

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1560

The complete GenevaBible appeared, translated by English Protestant exiles from the reign of Mary : the first accessible or mass-circulation edition of the Bible in English, with small format and roman (not gothic) print.
Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “How good is it?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 3, 3 Feb. 2011, pp. 20-2.
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Anne Locke: 15 January 1560

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15 January 1560

Someone entered in the Stationers' RegisterAL 's English versions of four sermons by John Calvin on the 38th chapter of Isaiah, printed that year with her initials, dedication, and sonnets expanding a psalm.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Anne Dowriche: Before 1 July 1560

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Before 1 July 1560

Anne Edgecumbe (later AD ) was born either months or years before this date (on which her father named her and her sister in his will).
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Queen Elizabeth I: About 1561

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About 1561

QEI probably translated a chorus from Seneca 's Hercules Oetaeus (the manuscript is not in her hand, and it was about the first decade of the seventeenth century that an attribution to her was written...

1561: Gabriele Falloppia (1523-1562) of Modena,...

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1561

Gabriele Falloppia (1523-1562) of Modena, Italy, gave scientific names to the vagina, placenta, and fallopian tubes, and was the first to describe the male contraceptive sheath, meant for prevention of venereal disease.
Talbott, John H. A Biographical History of Medicine: Excerpts and Essays on the Men and Their Work. Grune and Stratton, 1970.
67-8
Hordern, Anthony. Legal Abortion: The English Experience. Pergamon, 1971.
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6 January 1561: The early tragedy Gorboduc, or Ferrex and...

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6 January 1561

The early tragedy Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex, by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville (later first Earl of Dorset) , was first performed, in the hall of the Inner Temple.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

8 January 1561: John Bodley (father of the library founder...

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8 January 1561

John Bodley (father of the library founder Sir Thomas ) was granted a licence under the Privy Seal to sole rights for seven years to print the English Bible in a revised text which had...

Anne Bacon: 22 January 1561

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22 January 1561

AB bore her younger son, Francis , who became an influential scientist, writer, and thinker, as well as Lord Chancellor of England, and Viscount St Albans.
The early-twentieth-century Baconian movement (a group of scholars and...

By 14 April 1561: Sir Thomas Hoby's The Courtyer, translated...

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By 14 April 1561

Sir Thomas Hoby 's The Courtyer, translated from Baldassare Castiglione 's Il Cortegiano, was entered at the Stationers' Company ; it was published the same year.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: 27 October 1561

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27 October 1561

Mary Sidney (later Countess of Pembroke) was born at Tickenhall, near Bewdley in Worcestershire.
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS.
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1562: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer first...

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1562

The Anglican Book of Common Prayer first appeared with Sternhold and Hopkins 's English verse psalms as an integral part of it.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Queen Elizabeth I: October 1562

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October 1562

QEI suffered an attack of smallpox which she barely survived. The question of the succession loomed, and Burghley actually wrote a memo instructing the Privy Council , in the event of her death, to appoint...

October 1562-1563: Sir John Hawkins, explorer, privateer, and...

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October 1562-1563

Sir John Hawkins , explorer, privateer, and the earliest English slave trader, made the first British Atlantic slave voyage.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
155
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
xi, 25

Queen Elizabeth I: 1563

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1563

This year appeared a text which was billed as QEI 's: Precationes privatae, private prayers or devotions, in Latin.
Collinson, Patrick. “Little Bastard”. London Review of Books, 6 July 2000, pp. 17-18.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Elizabeth Grymeston: Before 1563

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Before 1563

Elizabeth Bernye, who later published as EG , was born, probably in her father's home county of Norfolk, the fifth but not the youngest child of her parents.
Warnicke, Retha. Women of the English Renaissance and Reformation. Greenwood Press, 1983.
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1563: A further Statute of Artificers was passed,...

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1563

A further Statute of Artificers was passed, regulating the terms of apprenticeship.
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
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1563: Convocation of the Church of England drew...

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1563

Convocation of the Church of England drew up the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, as a statement of what it is necessary for an Anglican to believe.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
274
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1563: Parliament, recognising that the voluntary...

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1563

Parliament, recognising that the voluntary system of poor relief had failed, empowered local justices to extract compulsory levies.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
10: 140-2

20 March 1563: John Foxe published Actes and Monuments (popularly...

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20 March 1563

John Foxe published Actes and Monuments (popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs), a harrowing account of the sufferings of martyred Protestants.
Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, 1979, http://BLC.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Anne Bacon: 1564

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1564

Matthew Parker , Archbishop of Canterbury, published at her own request AB 's An Apologie in Defence of the Churche of Englande, translated from the Latin church settlement written by John Jewel , Bishop...

Christopher Marlowe: Shortly before 26 February 1564

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Shortly before 26 February 1564

CM , poet and playwright, was born at Canterbury, the second child and eldest son in a family of nine; his elder sister died in 1568.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

William Shakespeare: 23 April 1564

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23 April 1564

WS , poet and playwright, was born in Henley Street, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, supposedly on this date, the feast of St George.
The date is virtually a guess. The child was baptised on...

1 May 1564: Elizabeth Lowys of Great Waltham, Essex,...

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1 May 1564

Elizabeth Lowys of Great Waltham, Essex, allegedly bewitched two children and an adult, who all died by this date; she pleaded her belly, but was found not pregnant and sentenced to hang.
Purkiss, Diane. The Witch in History: early modern and twentieth-century representations. Routledge, 1996.
169, 176n93

18 July 1564: The Merchant Adventurers' Company received...

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18 July 1564

The Merchant Adventurers' Company received a new charter from Elizabeth I that, among other things, incorporated the company in London, extended the geographical range of its dealings, and solified its status as a national...